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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Yi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, machel@vivo.com, mhiramat@kernel.org,
	ast@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib: error-inject: fix error check for debugfs_create_file()
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:10:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2023083151-random-karma-fa97@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230831075653.238562-1-yiyang13@huawei.com>

On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 03:56:53PM +0800, Yi Yang wrote:
> The debugfs_create_file() function returns error pointers, it never
> returns NULL, we need to check the return value correctly to avoid
> debugfs_remove() is not called.
> 
> Fixes: 540adea3809f ("error-injection: Separate error-injection from kprobe")
> Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yiyang13@huawei.com>
> ---
>  lib/error-inject.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/error-inject.c b/lib/error-inject.c
> index 887acd9a6ea6..8bcdea5229eb 100644
> --- a/lib/error-inject.c
> +++ b/lib/error-inject.c
> @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static int __init ei_debugfs_init(void)
>  	dir = debugfs_create_dir("error_injection", NULL);
>  
>  	file = debugfs_create_file("list", 0444, dir, NULL, &ei_fops);
> -	if (!file) {
> +	if (IS_ERR(file)) {

As it is obvious this check has never failed, please just don't check
this at all, it's fine to never check the return value of this function.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2023-08-31  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-08-31  7:56 [PATCH] lib: error-inject: fix error check for debugfs_create_file() Yi Yang
2023-08-31  8:10 ` Greg KH [this message]

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